Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow

By Yuval Noah Harari

Harari presents three possible futures: In one, humans are expendable. In a second, the elite upgrade themselves, becoming another species that sees everyone else as expendable. In a third, we all join the hive mind.

Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

For present-day Osage communities, the events related in “Killers of the Flower Moon” are not last century’s news but yesterday’s. Many members of the tribe still wonder what exactly happened to their relatives.

Lincoln in the Bardo

By George Saunders

When President Lincoln's 11-year-old son, Willie, is laid to rest in Georgetown’s Oak Hill Cemetery, the ghosts engage in a spirited debate about how to move the boy along to the next level of existence.

Priestdaddy

By Patricia Lockwood

Poet Patricia Lockwood's darkly comic memoir about returning home to her parents’ house in Kansas, where she is forced to reassess her relationship with her eccentric father, a married Catholic priest.

Since We Fell

By Dennis Lehane

Lehane’s 14th novel, which takes the author back to his old New England stomping grounds of “Mystic River,” is a pleasantly twisted character study of a disgraced television journalist who shoots her second husband in the first scene.